“It is a poor ambition to be anxious after the distinction of a day in that which, if it be fit to live at all, is to live for ages.”
About Richard Henry Dana
15 November 1787–2 February 1879
Richard Henry Dana, born on 15 November 1787 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead there on 2 February 1879, belonged to the first generation of American writers who attempted to make literature in the young republic something more than a colonial echo of English models. He was a poet, critic, editor, lawyer…